What phases did you go through?

When I was 12/13 I went thorugh a similar stage..i wore ripped tights, doc marten boots, denim skirts and ripped grungey t shirts with cuffs on that had studs and so on..those that know me will know that this is a gabillion (real word) miles away from how I am today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh God, I remember those sorts of cuffs! I had one with mahoosive spikes - didn't go with ANYTHING I wore but I thought it was cool because it was from a stall on Camden Market ?

18-21 I was a cyber kid/raver! (Think neon UV face paint, glow sticks and fluffy boots for the girls)

Will see if I have any pics when I get home.

Chav. But in my defence, I was from the north east - in the mid 90s no one dressed any differently!

Me circa 1996, age 14. That's an Ellesse puffa jacket. Underneath it I am wearing a white Kappa jacket.

This is me on holiday circa 2000, age 17. Notable points: my boobs are too big to go braless, stretchy denim skirt, feather necklace that doesn't even slightly match. Sexy.

You mean to tell me Harvo that you don't dress in stretchy denim skirts and go braless now!? ?

First came the scruffy rocker look with tatty denim jacket and cowboy boots, then morphed into a more glammy rock look, all leather, fishnet, pvc and big hair. Used to go clubbing in nowt more than, for example, a pvc bikini and fishnets with thigh high stilettos. Photos do exist, but not on this tablet and I don't think on my lappy either, it was mostly before I had a digital camera. Probably just as well.

Only on my birthday Flow!

Living in Brighton, most of these 'phases' aren't phases but how people still dress.

Basically anything goes and I barely bat an eyelid at how people are dressed.

Haha Kharv, I would sooooo have been your BFF if we had lived closer.

I went as grungy as possible and my mum said I would frighten a police horse! Charming...

I would also be in Kharv and hatricks gang. Kappa trackies, Adidas and Nike trainers, gold ragdolls... Ew. Had a bit of an emo/scene stage at 20ish for a bit.

I've never been a chav, and my goth/emo/metaller phase, that my Mum was so keen for me to grow out of, has only got worse.

I still wear docs, stripey tights, jewellery and clothes with studs on, band t-shirts etc. My 9 yr old dresses the same.

I did go through a phase of being a goth who had the pale face, black lipstick, velvet collars etc. Only lasted a year.

My sis went through an epic chav phase. Gold hoops from lizzie Duke, rockports, a pony tail so tight and high she got a brow lift. Awful.

What are these? Maybe I wasn't as cool as I thought ?

Please tell me you had gold sovereign rings too? And a Sweater Shop jumper?

I wasn't a jewellery chav really. Nor did I wear rockports etc. My chavviness was restricted purely to sportswear!

The sportswear "chavs", were called "Townies" here.

I was a bit of a hippy for a while, lots of tie dye shirts, long skirts and flared jeans. Long red hair. This was when I got my nose pierced!

Then came the doc martins, camo combat trousers and vest tops (think all saints but not as cool). Long purple hair. This was the navel piercing phase.

I also had in my wardrobe - a Kangol hat, Kickers shoes for school, a NAFNAF jacket and those adidas trackie with the poppers.

Rather depressingly, where I grew up they were just called normal!

Hatrick, you never had a gold ragdoll? Or clown or dolphin? Full of gems te goonies would be proud of ?

On Portsmouth the epitome of cool was to wear a sweater shop jumper over your (fake) Ralph Lauren polo top with levi jeans and kickers on 1997. Terrible.

I went through the emo stage quite late, from sort of 22 onward......shame! I still have the tunnels obvs and the star tattoos (so original)

In my first year of uni, I worse nothing but pink.

Throughout college I really fulfilled my "arts student" sterotype and dressed as a fairy. Every day. Tiara, wand and wings. What a knob.

Found my old Myspace account- excellent emo profile pics on there. What a bellend.

Mini , you made me smile , tiara and Fairy winds what a sweetie . "sportswear " growing up . Jo blogs/chippie etc . Then a bit long hair long skirts stage which I seem to be reverting to just now .

This thread has literally made me lol, I would love to see a photo of Mini as a fairy. I don't think I went through any particular clothing phases, other than just having no fashion sense. I remember getting turned away from a club when I was about 16 because I was quite clearly underage wearing a baby pink sparkly top, white skirt and white shoes. The shame. I also dressed like Kharv when I was about 12 (Ellesse jumpers etc) but that was just how everyone dressed at that time.

No photos but in vague order....preppy, didn't-care-but-designer-only, DMs/ripped tights/tiny skirt/fisherman jumper rock kid, Gazelles/baggy jeans indie kid.

Don't really follow a trend or 'look' now. I think it's a combo of the last two, only more grown up (am quite partial to biker boots and short skirts, but the tights are no longer ripped).

I am trying to find one. I can only find one of me in 2005 when we dressed up as fairies as a pisstake of how we used to dress at college iykwim? Luckily these were all taken pre-digital camera days.

Wahaha! I loved my dancing coke can!

Shellsuit. Hmmm.

I don't know phase it's called. I thought I was different and individual. When everyone else was going mad for iPods and the accompanying teeny weeny white headphones I walked around for a couple of years with these bad boys round my neck... (Before it was cool again might I add!)

Haven't got many pics of me as a teen really.

I had no fashion sense as a teenager but do recall spending a lot of time in v baggy jeans and tops emblazoned with some daft comment or quote that I considered to be witty but which weren't at all. I did own a pair of addidas bottoms with the poppers at one stage. I've had the misfortune of reliving these various errors of judgement looking through old photos for the wedding...

Mrs C, is that a kangol hat? I so wanted one of those when I was about 11

Aye

Eeeeee haha Kharv I was a Chav too (also being from the NE you will know what I mean when I say charva!) however, I must admit to owning two pairs of rockports and those massive gold earrings *cringe* not to mention the coke can fringe. Being from the east end of Newcastle it was pretty much standard in the late 90's, in fact, still is!

I'm often embarrassed by my brother and sister when the old photo albums come out

Indeed! I was annoyed I had to stop using Charva when I came to Leeds, no one knew what the frig I was on about. I still maintain we were using the word Charva long before the rest of the UK started using Chav

I always tried to get the fringe but, not unlike now, my hair never behaved.

I was nowhere near cool enough to have any kind of "look" ever. I lived in jeans and (mostly unbranded) sweatshirts through my teens. Branched out a bit since then, but I still don't really have style. ?